Moodle Tips and Tools

A nice visualization of the pro’s & cons of each social media channel, but with a business/marketing focus. I thought I should do one for social media use in education. However for most of the teachers I work with, our Moodle (EIT Online) is still their primary online teaching environment. So instead I set out to create this poster size guide for teachers, allowing them to compare the functionality and pedagogical advantages of some standard Moodle tools, adding a column to indicate how tricky the tool is to set up.

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe: RSS feed| Weekly Email Newsletter | Moodle News Twitter Thanks for visiting! Stumbled across this huge repository of video screencasts on Screenr.com last week and just had to share them. Shawn Brandt (@sbrandt) created them all and out of the nearly 80 videos he’s posted about 1/2 are all about Moodle. The topics range from beginner to more advanced and most videos are under 5 minutes.

Adding events and using the calendarusing assignmentscreating pages and resourcesdisplaying directoriesusing .zip files to upload multiple filesimproving your course aestheticsand so much more. Here’s a great one (creating a course that’s more learner-centric, For the full list of videos go to this link: And don’t forget to let @sbrandt know that the videos rock!
Moodle in Humanities – Classroom Activities and Examples (in vid. Welcome to Moodlenews.com A resource site for all Moodle-related news, tutorials, video, course content information and original resources.

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe: RSS feed| Weekly Email Newsletter | Moodle News Twitter Thanks for visiting! This video from Mary Cooch (aka @MoodleFairy) may be over a year old, but it’s excellent and well worth the watch. Show this to a new Moodler and watch their eyes widen at the possibilities presented on how they might use Moodle in a humanities classroom/course. Direct link to the video: Hat-tip to MariaMoodle for the original post (en Español):
Google Forms into Moodle Classrooms video by @howen
Welcome to Moodlenews.com A resource site for all Moodle-related news, tutorials, video, course content information and original resources.

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe: RSS feed| Weekly Email Newsletter | Moodle News Twitter Thanks for visiting! Here’s a quick [4 minutes] video on the process of embedding a Google Form into your Moodle classroom. If you’re looking for a quick way to capture anonymous data, or to solicit information from non-registered users then this might be a great way to integrate Google Forms into your Moodle site and/or classroom.

The video was created by Hazel Owen (@howen) and was originally found at Related: Creating Google Forms: